As I understand it, this bill is dead. Pieces of it were shoved into the healthcare bill to get it through. This bill, as it stands, will never leave committee. Welcome to politics.<br><br>--g<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:54 PM, James Salsman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsalsman@gmail.com">jsalsman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I just looked a little further, and now I see that Sections 501 and<br> 505 of the H.R. 3221 bill, which as Greg DeKoenigsberg mentioned<br> allocate $50 million over 10 years for open courseware, are dwarfed by<br> the remainder of the bill, which includes such things as the "Defund<br> ACORN Act" (Sec. 601-602) and various special subsidies such as<br> "SUPPLEMENTAL GRANTS FOR LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, AND ALABAMA"<br> (sections 321-323) etc.<br> <br> I'd love to see a national commitment to a class size of 15 students<br> per teacher and teacher salaries competitive with the other skilled<br> professions, but most of this bill is too particular for that.<br> <br> Is there any way we can make a concerted effort to ask that sections<br> 501 and 505 be moved into whatever senate omnibus bills are coming up<br> over the next month, along with a more uniform reduction of class<br> sizes and increase in teacher salaries?<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:41 PM, James Salsman <<a href="mailto:jsalsman@gmail.com">jsalsman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > H.R. 3221 passed the House but has been sitting in Sen. Tom Harkin's<br> > Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee since last<br> > September 22nd.<br> > <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.03221" target="_blank">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.03221</a>:<br> ><br> > Does anyone know if he or any of the other senators on that committee<br> > are interested in reporting it?<br> ><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>